Well, aside from documenting your code, as we all know is a sure sign of failure, the practice of doing really bizarre things in an effort to save CPU and disk cycles.. Observe a bit of internal notes for my currently-in-progress project (This one’s in PHP, so don’t sneer too loudly; you might hur...
Karsten Obarski, the father of computer assisted sequenced music, is 41 or\ 46 today. (Somebody\ has\ their\ dates\ wrong!)
Telephone still has one of the best sequences I can think of. I spent I don’t know how much time decoding MOD15 and later, MOD31 formats.. and here, 20 years after y...
I ran a free image hosting service in 1997. 1997, when the internet was still young, and, well, anyone who wanted to have a website ponied up the $35/yr for the privilege of the domain, and another $10-$100/month to host it. It was written in Perl, and was an unholy mess. I probably could have fudge...
I was looking through my cupboards, and in the mood for a sweet snack. I ended up making these; They’re pretty good, and quite easy to make!
What you’ll need:
4 tablespoons (half stick) butter or margarine
3/4 cup Karo (corn syrup) – I use the light stuff
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup peanut butte...
I know it’s been forever since I’ve written anything; I’ve moved on to ‘Real Life’ – and it’s been a wonderful replacement.
I write this merely as a useful hint to folks who might have a use for this. Several of my new projects are colocated on another system, of which I do not have root access,...
NewsRadio was probably the funniest show I’ve ever enjoyed. The timing, cynicism, and internal struggles made it so… well, in a word: brilliant.
The (albient dated, but by design) cultural references from Soylent Green to Flowers for Algernon only made the witty dialog all the more relevant...